Regule dignissime de electiõe & de dar prĩcipio a qualunque cosa : con dignissimi notandi de astrologia redacte i uulgare tamẽ secõdo hi canoni di sapiẽtissimi astrologi : & con le feste mobile in perpetuo : & con le regole de geometria uulgare a mesurar terreni feni muri biaue uini & altri superficii & corpi con breuita & optima intelligentia
A 1505 Italian-language astrology and practical geometry manual by Pietro Ganassoni, printed in Brescia for general readers who needed guidance on choosing auspicious times and on measuring land, walls and grain. The pictures are small woodcut-style diagrams on printed pages: a cube drawn in outline, a triangle with a central line, a dense table of numbers beside a column of text, and a zodiac wheel of labelled sign segments. A designer might take from them the economy of simple geometric line drawings and the look of early printed tables and charts.
